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TIL Botulinum toxin, the toxin that Botox is derived from, would take 0.00008mg to kill a human, 2kg to kill everyone on the planet, considered the deadliest known toxin on earth, the most expensive substance ever made at £100 trillion per kilo and was first discovered in poorly prepared sausages.

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